GlenL (Ohio)
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Posts: 5,491
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Like most Condo Associations our declarations ban homeowners from putting items on the common elements without Board approval. And like most Associations around the holidays, decorations start creeping onto the common elements including building hallways. This year instead of being Scrooge and forcing people to remove things, I got my fellow Board members to declare amnesty from Nov.15 to Jan 15 and asked homeowners to compete for building bragging rights. Does anyone else do this? How has it worked for your Association? Or do you stick to the letter of the declarations an ban everything? Remember our CC&R's allow the BOD some latitude. These are the rules I came up with:
Show your community spirit and help celebrate the end of another great year here at Aspen Glen. Help make your building more inviting to come home to. The Board is waiving the prohibition of placing items on the common elements without prior approval from November 15, 2006 until January 15, 2007. Get together with your neighbors and come up with a theme for your building or do your own thing. There is no prize for this; we simply want to give the community a chance come together and shine.
The Rules are simple:
1. Nothing is to be placed on the roofs or gutters.
2. Do not screw or nail things onto the buildings or permanently damage the building in order to attach decorations.
3. If the decoration requires power it must be U. L. approved for outdoor use and the cords must not pose a tripping or fire hazard.
4. First come first served. If you have a great idea to decorate the bushes outside the front door but someone in your building beats you to it, you can't tear down their decorations to put yours up.
5. Anything deemed by the Board as offensive to the community at large will be removed.
Remember:
We all have our own unique beliefs and this is not intended to promote one belief over another. Also whatever decorations you use; when this is over you will have to store them. So while that twelve foot inflatable Santa and snowman or the life-sized Nativity might look great; it could be a problem to find a place to keep them until next year.
Show your community spirit and help celebrate the end of another great year here at Aspen Glen. Help make your building more inviting to come home to. The Board is waiving the prohibition of placing items on the common elements without prior approval from November 15, 2006 until January 15, 2007. Get together with your neighbors and come up with a theme for your building or do your own thing. There is no prize for this; we simply want to give the community a chance come together and shine.
The Rules are simple:
1. Nothing is to be placed on the roofs or gutters.
2. Do not screw or nail things onto the buildings or permanently damage the building in order to attach decorations.
3. If the decoration requires power it must be U. L. approved for outdoor use and the cords must not pose a tripping or fire hazard.
4. First come first served. If you have a great idea to decorate the bushes outside the front door but someone in your building beats you to it, you can't tear down their decorations to put yours up.
5. Anything deemed by the Board as offensive to the community at large will be removed.
Remember:
We all have our own unique beliefs and this is not intended to promote one belief over another. Also whatever decorations you use; when this is over you will have to store them. So while that twelve foot inflatable Santa and snowman or the life-sized Nativity might look great; it could be a problem to find a place to keep them until next year.
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